NY Times: "As they neared a deadline to accept or reject the proposed antitrust agreement between Microsoft and the Bush administration, a group of state prosecutors spent the weekend fielding growing complaints about the deal from scores of industry executives, technology experts and consumer groups."

Wow. What a fantastic World Series. And the outcome, wow wow wow. I'm speechless. And that's unusual!

John Robb explains why, if the court goes along with the settlement, Microsoft will sieze control of everything on the Web in short order. It won't matter how much yelling and screaming there is.

Frank McPherson makes an interesting point, worth considering, for a moment. He argues that antitrust case should have been a civil case between Netscape's successor, AOL, and Microsoft. The courts didn't agree. Microsoft was convicted and the conviction was upheld, their Supreme Court appeal denied. I think the courts were right, and let's hope they tell the DoJ to try again.

Yesterday's World Series game taught me something important about philosophy. Even a new team with a new stadium in a town with no history of baseball can quickly get some philosophy, perhaps only temporarily, when competing against a "team" with negative philosophy. How does such philosophy manifest itself? Eight runs in one inning.